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2017 Speeches

Sarah Dessen is the recipient of the 2017 Margaret A. Edwards Award honoring his significant and lasting contribution to writing for teens for “ “Dreamland”, “Keeping the Moon”, “Just Listen”, “The Truth About Forever”, “Along for the Ride”, “What Happened to Goodbye?”, and “This Lullaby.”

In 2017, Jeff Zentner won the Morris Award for best first novel for teens for The Serpent King.

Finalists were Girl Mans Up written by M-E Girard, Rani Patel In Full Effect written by Sonia Patel, The Smell of Other People’s Houses written by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock, and Tell Me Something Real written by Calla Devlin. The reception was held at the 2017 Midwinter Meeting in Atlanta.

John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell won the 2017 Nonfiction Award for March: Book Three.

Finalists were Hillary Rodham Clinton: A Woman Living History by Karen Blumenthal, In the Shadow of Liberty: The Hidden History of Slavery, Four Presidents, and Five Black Lives by Kenneth C. Davis, Samurai Rising: The Epic Life of Minamoto Yoshitsune written by Pamela S. Turner. Illustrated by Gareth Hinds, and This Land is Our Land: A History of American Immigration written by Linda Barrett Osborne.